Vanessa Adams-Harris

Vanessa Adams-Harris, Muscogee citizen and director of outreach and alliance for the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, talks about her early awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of illness in her family and her daughter traveling abroad. Adams-Harris discusses the lack of news coming from within Oklahoma in the early months of the pandemic as well as her husband's decision to retire from American Airlines due to employees not taking sufficient precautions. She describes her personal use of masks and vaccines and the broader public response and shares how she thinks society will move on from the pandemic and the lasting effects it may have.